Zellweger: Unlucky in love?
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Zellweger’s romantic misadventures
Renée Zellweger is often described as unlucky in love, says Will Lawrence in the London Times. In 1995, her ex-boyfriend, musician Sims Ellis, committed suicide; afterward she had several failed romances, culminating in a high-profile affair with Jim Carrey. Their relationship foundered when she moved to London to shoot Bridget Jones’s Diary, but not before the press reported their engagement. “I got to work one day on the set to a round of applause from the crew,” she recalls, chuckling. “The rumor was that I’d been proposed to the night before. The report had the place, the size of the diamond, how much it cost, and what he said. But I was in bed the night before and he was out of the country!” In fact, Zellweger has been engaged only once, to country singer Kenny Chesney. They married after a whirlwind romance and had their marriage annulled after just four months. But as she approaches 40, Zellweger isn’t panicking. “Motherhood has never been an ambition. I don’t think like that. I never had expectations like, ‘When I’m 19 I’m going to do this, and by the time I’ve hit 25 I’m going to do that.’ I take things as they come, each day at a time, and if things happen, all well and good. I just want to be independent and be able to take care of myself. Anything else is just gravy.”
